Max Roser

Couldn’t stop reading that article. It’s just so good to read someone who explains why they love something.

Hey Johan, you wrote a great book — I was actually just rereading a part of it last night!

This talk by Ajeya Cotra is my favorite introduction to 'Effective Altruism'. [link] - She gets the inspiring excitement of this movement across. - And she also gets to the hard questions that EAs ask themselves. Very much recommend it if you are interested.

I very much recommend the @80000Hours podcast episode with @KareninKenya. If you are interested in development and research this discussion really gets across what people in the field are currently working on – and how exciting this work is right now.

The latest podcast by @robertwiblin is excellent. His guest is Samuel Charap – @scharap here – and it is a one-hour overview on the war in the Ukraine. Why did Putin invade Ukraine? What is the risk of further escalation? And how to prevent the worst?

How many people have died due to the pandemic? @Nature just published a good, very readable article on this question:

As so often the FT's @jburnmurdoch & @mroliverbarnes have a good article with more detail – including this breakdown of incidental admissions and people who are primarily treated for COVID. → 'England’s Covid infection rate climbs to 1 person in 25'

'How the pandemic now ends’ [link] Thanks to @renaecrossing who shared this article. The article was written by @edyong209 in August this year. It’s still worth reading, but an updated version would of course be great.

More and more people are joining our effort to make the climate & energy data from the @IEA available to the public. I think this new article by Christa Hasenkopf (@sciencerely) is the best text on it: [link] More succinct and clearer than the one I coauthored.

This by @_neilhacker is a very good essay on the idea that we need 'buyers of first resort' to bring new technologies into the world https://t.co/MYgD3hYUKY [I wish more governments (and voters!) would understand that they also have a role to play here.]